Olivia Pandola
Approach vs Method
● Both words work
● Layout:
○ Approach →
■ Method →
● Technique
Methods
● Grammar Translation Approach
● Direct Method
● Reform Movement
● Reading Approach
● Audiolingual Approach
● Oral-Situational Approach
● Cognitive Approach
● Natural Method
● Affective-Humanistic Approach
○ Designer Methods (Silent way, TPR, Suggestopedia,
Community Language Learning)
● Communicative Approach
Grammar Translation
● Writing/Reading
● Only focus on vocab & grammar
● Teacher only needs to be proficient in writing & vocab, not
speaking/listening
● Dead languages good for:
○ Could be used for Latin bc people don’t speak Latin
anymore
● Still useful in some situations, depending on goal of learner
● Deductive
Direct Method
● Focus on learning lang in the classroom context
● Use a lot of gestures, pictures
● Still used today; common in Europe
● Teacher needs to be proficient in target lang
Reform Movement
● Creation of IPA
Reading Approach
● When students take a lang, best hope is that they can read
the lang.
● Focuses on vocab and grammar for reading
Audiolingual
Approach
● Learn through conditioning
● Habitual learning
● Simple to complex vocab
● First speaking/listening, then reading/writing
● Derived in U.S.
● More behaviorist